When modern political debate turns to questions of instability, irrationality, and fitness to govern, George III functions as cultural shorthand: the mad king. The phrase is convenient. It is also ...
In the spring of 1775, the royal governor of Massachusetts, appointed by King George III, commanded 700 Redcoats to march to Lexington to suppress the colony’s Patriots. Almost exactly 250 years later ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Alarmed by the policies of President Donald Trump, millions turned out last month for protests around the United States and overseas. Mindful of next year’s 250th anniversary of ...